[tlug] Linux server health monitoring

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

I need to come up with some way to monitor our Linux servers with a
nighly cronjob for possible hardware failure. On the Solaris side of
things, I have a script that uses prtdiag to do just that.

I did some research, and it looks like lm_sensors may be the key to
doing this. However, it also looks a bit like overkill. I could not
quite get it working on a Red Hat 7.3 server (using Tom Callaway's
prtdiag Bash script and the lm_sensors RPMs).

So, can anybody suggest a solution, or has anyone set lm_sensors up
before and would be willing to help me out?

I am thinking a Bash script that plays around with the output of dmesg
or some of the stuff in the /var/log directory might also do the
trick.

TIA,
Josh


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Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.
http://www.incogen.com/

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